Sacramento California -- On Thursday June 23, a federal
jury found former IRS Criminal Investigative Division (CID) Special Agent
and CPA Joseph Banister not guilty of all counts alleging criminal tax fraud
and conspiracy related to actions he took on behalf of a California business
owner who had openly defied the IRS over several years by stopping withholding
of all income and employment taxes from the paychecks of his workers.

During the trial the Department of Justice was unable
to put forth any evidence that Banister had either engaged in a conspiracy
or had acted unlawfully when he shared legal research with business owner
Al Thompson concluding that he had no legal obligation to withhold taxes
from his workers or when he (Banister) prepared corrected tax returns for
Thompson claiming his taxable income was, under U.S. law, zero.

During the trial, Banister's former supervisor at IRS’s
San Jose CID office, Robert Gorini (who testified via video recording) when
pointedly asked, was unable to cite any U.S. law that required Banister
to pay income taxes.

Banister, who was forced to resign in 1999 after questioning
IRS officials about their legal authority, gave Thompson’s worker’s
a presentation in 2000 which reviewed his detailed investigative research
of U.S. tax law which concluded that not only did the IRS lack any authority
to impose income taxes on the workers, but there was no legal requirement
for the business to withhold any taxes from the worker's paychecks.

Banister is part of a nationwide effort seeking to
force the U.S. Government to respond to a series of detailed legal Petitions
for Redress of Grievances directly challenging the authority of the IRS.
Last summer, the We The People Foundation initiated a landmark lawsuit with
2000 plaintiffs against the government because it has refused to answer
the Petitions.

The Right-To-Petition lawsuit, of which Banister is
a plaintiff, is the first time in history that U.S. courts have been asked
to define the meaning of the final ten words of the First Amendment.

Court documents for the RTP lawsuit and scholarly research
regarding the Right to Petition can be downloaded from the Lawsuit Information
Center on www.GiveMeLiberty.org.

Following the verdict, Banister was greeted by a throng
of WTP supporters and members of his family.

Tomorrow, WTP will publish additional details
of this important news and stream video of post-verdict interviews of Banister
& several of the jurors.

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